by Helen How | Jun 27, 2025 | Achilles Tendon
🦶 Case Study: Focused ESWT for Scar Tissue & Insertional Achilles Tendinopathy Restoring Function After Four Ankle Surgeries in a Retired Professional Footballer 👤 Patient Profile Age: 35 Occupation: Retired professional footballer Referral: Via...
by Helen How | Jun 13, 2025 | Achilles Tendon, Focus Shockwave Therapy, Time under Tension
🧠 1. Magnusson et al. (2010) – The Pathogenesis of Tendinopathy: Balancing the Response to Loading Tendon tissue is metabolically active and adapts to both loading and unloading through collagen synthesis and degradation cycles. Collagen...
by Helen How | Feb 27, 2025 | Achilles Tendon
Insertional Achilles tendons require focused shockwave therapy and you need the treatment plan to last between 3 to 6 months it takes longer then studies which just say 3 to 4 months this is because as you can see from the x-ray the insertion of the Achilles can cause...
by Helen How | Apr 22, 2023 | Achilles Tendon
Eswt tendons systematic reviewEswt tendons systematic review Shock wave therapy (ESWT) was first used for kidney stones, as a method to disintegrate them (1). At the beginning of the 1990s, it was used as a non‑invasive procedure to successfully treat calcific...
by Helen How | Oct 6, 2021 | Achilles Tendon, Foot pain
Abdelkader(2021)- rSWT for Achilles Tendinopathy – Double Blind RCT Here are two papers in which radial shockwave, and focused shockwaves on the effectiveness of radial shockwave and focused shockwave in Achilles tendinopathy all the patients were diagnosed and...
by Helen How | Apr 29, 2021 | Achilles Tendon
Achilles Tendinitis Is a common condition and is increasingly popular to have shockwaves. There are two types of shockwave, focus and radial You can click on the link below which is a nice trial using radial shockwave double-blind RCT Abdelkader(2021)-...
